Oh Virginians, it's time to admit it. You guys are screwed. Your options for U.S. Senate are between a racist sexist douchebag and a racist sexist doofus. George Allen is now infamous for repeatedly displaying his bigotry as prominently as the Confederate flag he once hung in his home and wore as a pin in a highschool year book photo (why don't you just throw a pointy white hood on before your interviews and avoid the probing questions). Jim Webb is only slightly less of a disaster calling Affirmative Action "state sponsored racism" and calling for women to stay out of the military. The latter statement he has since retracted.
George Allen the next Martha? We could only be so lucky!
George Allen on Decorating:
Confederate Flags make lovely wall hangings. They also cover up the safe where I keep my Klan gear.
I recently saw both contenduhhhs interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press. Tim Russert asked Sen. Allen about an AP article documenting his decision to display the confederate flag in his home and office as well as a noose in his office. Allen dodged the noose question and explained that the Confederate flag stands for southern pride and history giving the tired equivocation every bigoted racist sputters out when confronted with their decision to swaddle themselves in it: it's about the history and culture of the south. He claimed that later in life he learned the lesson that the confederate flag represents oppression for blacks. How did he discern this complex and sensitive lesson, you ask? Why from his experience with football. Football, he explained, is a meritocracy where race doesn't matter. Recent accounts from his football buddies contradict these claims.
Rope can add a delightful whimsy to any room. Just create a small slipknot on one end and it will dangle gently from any houseplant.
Russert, of course, did not the push the noose question. Here's how the Richmond Times Dispatch originally reported it in 2000:
U.S. Senate candidate George Allen wears his conservative heart on the sleeve of his cowboy shirt and makes no bones about his commitment to law and order. Visitors to his old law office near downtown Charlottesville used to see a grim and graphic reminder of his view of criminals.
Dangling from a ficus tree in the corner was a noose, a reminder that the Republican politician saw some justification in frontier justice.
And here's how Allen's own campaign manager described it in a Washington Post story during the campaign:
Christopher J. LaCivita, Allen's campaign manager, said the noose was one item in a collection of cowboy memorabilia that Allen displayed in his Charlottesville law office in the early 1990s.
Far from being a racially charged symbol, the noose was an emblem of Allen's tough stance on law-and-order issues, LaCivita said.
When introducing a new guest, make him or her feel at home by using racial slurs from wherever you suspect they are really from
Yes, this is in reference to Allen's word vomit when he called attention to Webb's campaign volunteer, S.R. Sidarth, by saying "Let's give a welcome to macaca here. Let's give him a welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." In the Meet the Press interview Allen claimed that he MADE UP THE WORD. What a scholar!
Ahh, I am sure you have seen it already but it's worth another gander:
The best advice I can give Virginians....move.
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